Deposit insurance, as we know it today, was introduced in India in 1962. India was the second country in the world to introduce such a scheme, the first being the US in 1933. Banking crises and bank failures worldwide underscored the need for depositor protection.
Reserve Bank of India superseded the Board of Directors of New India Cooperative Bank Ltd, Mumbai, for a period of 12 months, the central bank said in a statement Friday, a day after it imposed several restrictions on the lender.